From: boba@gagme.wwa.com (Bob Allison)
Subject: Book Review: "From Somaphore to Satellite" by ITU
Date: 25 May 1994 09:08:43 -0500
Organization: WorldWide Access - Chicago Area Internet Services 312-282-8605
For those of you interested in the history of Trans-Atlantic
cobles, or the history of telecom, there's a book you might want to
search for. My copy is rather old, so if there was no update to it;
you may have to look for an old edition.
The book is called 'From Somaphore to Satellite'. It was published
by the ITU (International Telecommunications Union) in 1963. It
covers everything up to that year.
It's a big format, 344 page volume. The parts covering the history
of the Trans-Atlantic cable were very interesting, at least to me.
The book has some interesting old pictures too.
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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Perhaps you or someone else with a copy
of the book would like to quote some of the more interesting excerpts here
in the Digest. Please send them in. PAT]